writers

Noun

writer (plural writers)

1. A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
   • Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!
2. Anything that writes or produces output.
   • If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals, page 715
3. A machine or tool used for writing, often by chording keys on a specialized keyboard (e.g. braillewriter, microwriter, stenograph).
4. The seller of an option.
5. (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
6. (Scotland) An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.

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